• The Santa Clara cannery strike occurred during the summer of 1931. Workers spontaneously walked out of canneries in order to protest a 20% cut in wages...
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    The Santa Clara Valley (Spanish: Valle de Santa Clara) is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from...
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    Before the Santa Clara Cherry Strike, there were many previous strikes that occurred before 1933, such as the Santa Clara cannery strike in 1931. There...
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    Strikes in the United States in the 1930s played a major role in reshaping the economy as it recovered from the Great Depression. Unions gained millions...
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    The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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  • Organized labor portal United States portal List of strikes List of striking US workers by year Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1973-01-01)...
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  • Zavella, Patricia (1987). Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Cornell University Press. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1wn0qrh...
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    List of striking United States workers by year (category Strikes in the United States)
    Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations it cites...
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    The Delano grape strike was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored...
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  • The 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike was a labor strike that involved over 1,000 workers at two food processing facilities in Watsonville, California...
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